Building a Diverse Perennial Pasture Mix

0:04 One thing I really like about designing a perennial tax pastor makes things that I like to see. I like to see a lot of diversity and if you can compare the

0:16 Look of this diverse mix that we put together compared to any of the monoculture species that we looked at so far you see this this just blows.

0:28 Everything away you look at the biomass on this compared to any of the others.

0:33 You guys want to kind of pan around look at the pure grass over there a lot of.

0:37 Pastures are pure grass. Look at that compared to the productivity and I think in my mind at least the obvious visual nutritional benefits of all this.

0:51 Diversity we've talked about the nutritional benefits of the chicory, plantain. Of course the grasses provide a lot of yield, the legumes provide a lot.

1:04 Of calcium nitrogen helps increase the overall productivity of the mix protein and we've got minerals we've got vitamins bioactive compounds protein.

1:18 Shot energy and we've got diversity of canopy types we don't have any one insect or disease it's going to wipe this thing out it's going to be very.

2:03 To plant species growing seasons types.

2:07 Types diversity really adds resiliency, and so I think this in a mixture of species it's really.

2:22 Cost medal or parade put together a mixture like this and plan a monoculture of grants and you see this has had no herbicides on it.

2:35 The only weed control was a couple mowings last year. Let's see, do you see any? There's no pest insects. You do see a lot of insects flying around this.

2:47 Beneficial insects. I said this once you get this up and going, it's pretty problem. Please, just this to me in my mind is what a pasture.